Geofilters make a presence on the GBHS campus, as well as around the world

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This year, Granite Bay High School has implemented one of the social media world’s various prevailing gadgets onto our campus: geofilters.

Snapchat, the application from which this geotag phenomenon is derived from, is a renowned social media application with over 100 million active users every day.

18 percent of all United States social media users have Snapchat.

In this application, users can communicate through pictures or videos with captions for word text.

Geofilters, also known as geotags, were a new addition to one of Snapchat’s recent updates.

“Anyone can make a Snapchat geotag. Snapchat has a great online interface where you can submit your designs,” said senior Luke Snedecor, who is the creator of Granite Bay High School’s newly famed geotags.

Now when a Snapchat user takes a photo at or near Granite Bay High School, the school’s customized geofilters appear.

“During one of my digital arts classes at Sierra College, I created the two filters for GBHS. They got approved about halfway through the summer,” Snedecor said.

These geofilters appear onto a Snapchat photo in correlation to a user’s specific location.

For example, if one were to be snapchatting in Los Angeles, various Los Angeles geotag designs may appear onto the taken Snapchat photo.

It’s all dependent on one’s location. Geofilters are used virtually all over the world.

“I was just bouncing around on the internet and I came across how to make a Snapchat geotag,” said junior and student-technology director of Granite Bay Information Technology Brendan Bissell. “I knew my friend Luke was a great graphic designer so I sent him a text and said ‘Hey, we should have this for Granite Bay, and he ended up making a bunch of them.”